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Edward Wheler Bird (1823–1903), Anglo-Indian judge and British-Israel author; Edward Hine (1825–1891), artist, historian, author of Forty-Seven Identifications of the British Nation with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel; John Cox Gawler (1830–1882) was a Keeper of the Jewel House and a British Israelite author
38th battalion of the Jewish Legion marching in London, 1918. Britain seized Palestine from the Ottoman Empire during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in World War I.Close cooperation between Britain and the Yishuv, the nascent pre-state Jewish community in Palestine, developed during this time, when Britain received intelligence from the Nili Jewish spy network, which assisted British forces ...
As a result, Israel's victory in the Six-Day War, Jews could visit the Old City of Jerusalem and pray at the Western Wall (the holiest site in Judaism) for the first time since the end of the British Mandate, to which they had been denied access by the Jordanians in contravention of the 1949 Armistice agreement. The four-meter-wide public alley ...
The state of Israel was nevertheless founded under prime minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948 with the end of the British Mandate, winning immediate recognition from the US and Soviet Union ...
The Israeli Declaration of Independence, formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel [2] (Hebrew: הכרזה על הקמת מדינת ישראל), was proclaimed on 14 May 1948 (5 Iyar 5708) by David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization, [a] [3] Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and later first Prime Minister of Israel. [4]
Rishi Sunak has promised ‘always’ to stand with Israel, in a message to Britain’s Jewish community a week on from the attack by Hamas. Sunak promises to ‘stand with’ Israel and British ...
The State of Israel was founded eight hours before the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine, which was due to finish on 15 May 1948. Independence Day, 1978 The operative paragraph of the Declaration of the Establishment of State of Israel of 14 May 1948 [ 5 ] expresses the declaration to be by virtue of our natural and historic ...
In the Middle East, the war had made Britain conscious of its dependence on Arab oil. British firms controlled Iraqi oil and Britain ruled Kuwait, Bahrain and the Emirates. Shortly after VE Day, the Labour Party won the general election in Britain. Although Labour Party conferences had for years called for the establishment of a Jewish state in ...